Hebrews for Everyone

thus established the new covenant, in which sins have been fully and finally dealt with.

In Jesus the great high priest, God has put things into proper order at last.

He has

Some of the temporary roadways are still standing, but you shouldn’t mistake them for the real thing. His readers need to know that they can now travel by the main highway straight into the heart of the city. If anyone tells them they should still use the old roads, the answer is not that those old roads were a bad thing, but that they were a good

properly dealt with and forgiveness not only promised but accomplished.

The present section of the letter all comes under the heading formed by the previous section, in which the writer quoted Jeremiah 31.31–34 in full, focusing on the fact that what has come about through Jesus the Messiah is the long-awaited‘new covenant’, the new bond between God and his people through which, at last, sins would be

Temporary arrangements have to be made to keep things flowing, to regulate ongoing human life, until the appointed time.

could be ‘put into proper order’ (verse 10).

so that the entire world,